with their own shingle shape, they were never mixed together. We were interested in using the same pattern pieces that were familiar, and at the same time when assembled, became a pattern that was completely unfamiliar. We needed to make it repetitive and easy to assemble (like paint by numbers), but seem complex, when in fact it was quite simple. The result was delightful. The house was on a corner lot on a very busy thoroughfare that cuts across the city, so it had lots of eyes on it.
We suddenly started getting calls and emails from colleagues asking how we did it – laser cut or what, and people were surprised that yes, these were just off-the -shelf shingles. We used no special technology to create the pattern – just experimenting with different repetition scenarios. Launching from here, we invented new patterns drawing from the same available stock material. We loved the graphic aspect but also the highly textural, full-of-depth nubbly results creating fascinating shadows.
For a house on Helena Avenue, three patterns were explored for its existing bay window that we called Braid, Rapunzel and Dragon Scales. Although Rapunzel was chosen because the directionality of the dragon scales felt busy on the bay, it became the starting point for the Dragon Garage pattern exploration where there was a lot more wall that could handle the prickly-ness.
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